The third album [Touchdown] by Brighton UK’s brakesbrakesbrakes finds the group, which features former and current members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade, and The Tenderfoot, polishing up their sound a bit...

When not playing in his full-time gig with Wilco, New Jersey native-via-Chicagoan-via-Brooklynite Mikael Jorgensen crafts pitch-perfect pop songs under the moniker of Pronto. The full story begins all the way back in 1995,...

LA indie pop group Great Northern just released their newest opus and you can quickly tell they have poured their souls into it. What we’ve been hearing at Insomnia Radio the last few days is quite...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison Philadelphia foursome MorningSide are releasing their second full-length album The Abuse You Own later this year, but here at Insomnia Radio we couldn’t wait that long so we’ve got a...

Fresh back from a trip to Hangzhou China and beyond, Chicago musician David B Henson has sent us a handful of tracks from his upcoming debut 12-song LP slated to be untethered in May.  The spaceman adorned album is dubbed,...

Josh Hall is a prolific enigma.

Power Pop for the Summer, from Tulsa, Oklahoma Well-known for their harmony infused, three-minute rock explosions and eccentric pop experimentation, Admiral Twin’s latest CD, The Center of the Universe, features...

“If I can’t be someone of consequence, I’d rather die than have to crawl.” The above quote is part of the notable lyrics to the three song EP that Los Angeles rock band Immune put out a little over a...

Psychedelic-tinged Rock from Buenos Aires Argentina via Bibao Spain Released 25 April 2009, Rising Mountain is the eleventh Album from Capsula, who formed in 1999.    This prolific band are originally from Buenos...

Yes, folks, another band from Montreal deserves your attention. (checks notes…damn, the whole “great musicianship is in the water” thing has been done to death…) Formed in 2005 with a strong DIY...

Four years after travelling to Jamaica with an acoustic guitar, “echo box” and megaphone, Mr. Anonymous is back with “Mr. Anonymous 2”. For this mission, boundaries were pushed to “the...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison New York based four-piece Her Vanished Grace have created a sound which is really something special with their newest album ‘Blue’. They describe themselves as dream pop (incidentally...

Gooey power-pop. Yum.

Grrr… is the third full length album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was just released last month on March 10th and is a follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String. Bishop Allen formed...

Singer/rhythm guitarist Andy Martin, lead guitarist Kyle Hammond and drummer Dan Ryan formed DEAD WORLD LEADERS in 2006. With the addition of Rob Nicholson on bass they have aired on Hallam FM, BBC Radio Sheffield and more...

"Like Everclear on anti-depressants"

Originally born to a musical family in California, Katie has also called Colorado as well as Nashville home. From her early beginnings on backup vocals and drums in the band “Newcomers Home”, Herzig initially...

From the Alabama based band’s album Beautifully Strange HalfDown Thomas’s third album was blown away by Hurricane Katrina. Literally. The band, which hails from the sleepy little backwoods town of Cullman,...

Written by: Jason Evangelho Bratty, spastic, melodic, indie-punk. These are all words I could use to describe Los Campesinos! (roughly translated: The Peasants) – upon a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th listen. The first time I...

Seattle, Washington’s Hey Marseilles plays simple folk songs, interweaving orchestral instrumentation with melodic musings on time and place. Having garnered favorable reviews since their formation in late 2006,...

From the album England for Sale Who we are Pierre Alexander and Sebastian Stelzer We’re European alcoholic decent folks who learned a bit of guitar and piano and decided to practice their skills by recording new...

O+S is a new project by Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Orenda and Scalpelist, long-time friends from their shared hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, have created a...

From New York, and from their soon to be released EP Sweet Fist Super 400 evokes the raw, euphoric essence of Rock and Roll. Their upcoming release, Sweet Fist, truly reflects the light and dark of this new millennium;...

Being based out of Miami, FL has not stopped Modernage from accomplishing anything they have wanted to. Modernage has released three records: the Debut EP ‘Receiver,’ single ‘Strangers/This Song,’ and their new EP...

From their EP My Apple IIe is Singing Sad Songs to Me on Roses & Hello Their new release, My Apple IIe…, includes four tracks and clocks in at over 20 minutes of the band’s signature mix of ebullient pop melodies...

Today marks the first anniversary of the restructuring of the Daily Dose music blog here at IR, helmed by Stuart Morrison (UK) and Charles Stepczyk (US) – 365 tracks in a row hand picked from submissions and from...

From their 2008 album Lensing The alt-rock sound coming out of Boston has a name: a’tris. The group draws upon a myriad of influences to create a noise that moves crowds to their feet. The front...

Crystal Stilts is a Brooklyn, N.Y., quartet. Its sound — equally droll, moody and buoyant — has roots in early ’80s Manchester pop as well as in minimalist garage-rock acts. The band has drawn comparisons to Interpol,...

From his album The Funny Fall Reviewed by Sarah Morrison for Insomnia Radio The Funny Fall is a truly beautiful record. It delivers intense, moody songs whilst maintaining an elegant simplicity, and has emotional depths that...

Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned is an indie-folk band and large part of Albany’s B3nson Recording Collective. The band has been in existence for a little more than 3 years and written and recorded over 100 songs and...

Garage Punk from NYC The Dirty Shames formed in mid 2008 with Nathan and Lisa who were looking to start a Rock N’ Roll band influenced by 60’s garage and 70’s punk....

Formed in Scotland in 2006, the fight pop six piece, Dananananaykroyd just released their Black Wax single on March 22 and previous to that – the Pink Sabbath single which we’ve featured here today. NPR has been...